PowerColor Radeon HD 5970 LCS Review

ccokeman - February 22, 2010
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Specifications:

Graphics Engine	RADEON HD5970
Video Memory	2GB GDDR5
Engine Clock	750 MHz
Memory Clock	1050 Mhz (4.2Gbps)
Memory Interface	2 X 256bit (256bit)
DirectX Support	11
Bus Standard	PCIE 2.1
Video Input
VGA Output	Yes, By DVI to VGA converter
HDTV Output
TV Output
DVI Output	DVI-I x 2 + mini Display Port x 1
Dual-link DVI Output	Yes
HDMI Support	Yes, By DVI to HDMI Adapter
HDCP Support	Yes

Features:

Dual GPUs with a total of 4.3 billion 40nm transistors
TeraScale 2 Unified Processing Architecture
          o 3200 Stream Processing Units
          o 160 Texture Units
          o 256 Z/Stencil ROP Units
          o 64 Color ROP Units
GDDR5 memory interface
PCI Express 2.1 x16 bus interface
DirectX® 11 support
Shader Model 5.0
          o DirectCompute 11
          o Programmable hardware tessellation unit
          o Accelerated multi-threading
          o HDR texture compression
          o Order-independent transparency
OpenGL 3.2 support1
Image quality enhancement technology
          o Up to 24x multi-sample and super-sample anti-aliasing modes
          o Adaptive anti-aliasing
          o Super AA
          o 16x angle independent anisotropic texture filtering
          o 128-bit floating point HDR rendering
ATI Eyefinity multi-display technology2,3
o Three independent display controllers
Drive three displays simultaneously with independent resolutions, refresh rates, color controls, and video overlays
o Display grouping
+ Combine multiple displays to behave like a single large display
ATI Stream acceleration technology
          o OpenCL 1.0 compliant
          o DirectCompute 11
          o Double precision floating point processing support
          o Accelerated video encoding, transcoding, and upscaling4,5
                + Native support for common video encoding instructions
ATI CrossFireX™ multi-GPU technology
o Dual card performance scaling
ATI Avivo HD Video & Display technology
          o UVD 2 dedicated video playback accelerator
          o Advanced post-processing and scaling8
          o Dynamic contrast enhancement and color correction
          o Brighter whites processing (blue stretch)
          o Independent video gamma control
          o Dynamic video range control
          o Support for H.264, VC-1, and MPEG-2
          o Dual-stream 1080p playback support9,10
          o DXVA 1.0 & 2.0 support
          o Integrated dual-link DVI output with HDCP11
                + Max resolution: 2560x160012
          o Integrated DisplayPort output
                + Max resolution: 2560x160012
          o Integrated HDMI 1.3 output with Deep Color, xvYCC wide gamut support, and high bit-rate audio
                + Max resolution: 1920x120012
          o Integrated VGA output
                + Max resolution: 2048x153612
          o Integrated HD audio controller
                + Output protected high bit rate 7.1 channel surround sound over HDMI with no additional cables required
                + Supports AC-3, AAC, Dolby TrueHD and DTS Master Audio format
ATI PowerPlay™ power management technology
o Dynamic power management with low power idle state
o Ultra-low power state support for multi-GPU configurations
Certified drivers for Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP